People Business Partner

£34,000-36,000 plus £4,500 car allowance

Wolverhampton Hybrid Role - With travel nationwide

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

To support the Head of People to deliver the People strategy across the business units and provide credible, high-quality business partnering, coaching, training, and HR advice to people managers.

To partner with and support managers to manage all aspects of day-to-day operational business requirements for the business unit.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITES

Training and Development

• In conjunction with the Head of People, the People Development Manager and peers, establish, implement, and embed the learning and development strategy for the Business Units and align with collaboration the activities related to the BU and Group people plan
• Devise, implement and embed relevant operational skills training including apprenticeships, especially working with key stakeholders to ensure mandatory training completion is consistently high
• To manage and administer learning management platforms and learning data
• Support Group learning and development activities

Employee Relations

• Provide sound and practical advice and support to managers in dealing with employee relations cases. Work in partnership with managers to bring each case to an appropriate business conclusion working within Company and legal guidelines
• Proactively support the management of absence within the business unit and including ensuring that all long-term sickness cases are brought to a satisfactory conclusion in a timely manner. Engage Occupational Health support as required
• Coach and advise managers to resolve ER issues effectively and build their team members capability. Conduct root cause analysis where required to proactively resolve these.
• Manage relationships/negotiations with Trade Unions where required
• Maintain up to date employment law knowledge in line with UK legislation

Performance Management

• Drive a high-performance culture across the business unit ensuring plans are in place to develop managers and colleagues with high potential and proactively address those in the underperforming category
• Drive the Performance Management process and guide managers on consistency and approach
• Drive the People KPI’s (such as Colleague Turnover) through coaching and guidance of people managers.

People MI

• Collate and produce accurate and reliable people MI for the business and work with the Head of People to develop strategies for improvement

Engagement

• Take the lead in driving actions from any colleague engagement surveys and data, working closely with managers and their teams to deliver on any action plans
• Collaborate with people managers to gain first hand colleague insight and act upon findings
• Inspire colleagues and make them better at what they do.

Organisational Design

• Provide support and guidance as required by the Business Unit people strategy, supporting managers to design and develop the most effective function to best meet present and future business needs.
• Support and guide on acquisitions and their people integration regarding OD

• Provide advice to local managers regarding the process of organisational restructuring (including TUPE) and redundancy, proactively supporting them through the process.

Change Management

• Support and influence managers with the delivery of critical change projects (e.g., re-organisation, redundancy, culture change, ways of working) to ensure that there is a robust people plan within the change project, taking into account employment law and colleague experience where appropriate.
• Drive change through coaching managers, role modelling and creating a positive climate throughout the change journey

Talent

• Manage local talent plans and succession planning and support managers to define and deliver outcomes
• Support managers to define and deliver local business wide T&D plans
• Drive and support managers with the Apprenticeship Scheme/Education/Govt initiatives
• Identify common areas of potential development for people managers and design and deliver briefing/training sessions to support
• Help drive a culture of continuous learning and development across the business unit and support requests for development as appropriate
• Work with the central people teams and "experts" to co-ordinate site activity

People Operations

• Work with People Operations function and support cyclical and adhoc people activities
• Work with People Operations to ensure that we provide a quality colleague experience

Behaviours/Competencies/Values

• Be the ambassador. Drive and role model appropriate Behaviours, Competencies and Values and coach managers and colleagues to do the same

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• CIPD Level 5 preferable
• Experience of developing and delivering training across a multi-site environment
• Able to successfully demonstrate evidence of business knowledge and commercial awareness in a multi-site field-based HR advisory and business partner role
• Able to successfully demonstrate evidence of working with complex employment relations issues
• Able to successfully demonstrate evidence of managing large scale restructure and redundancy programmes
• Working knowledge of TUPE legislation and experience of managing acquisition integrations
• In conjunction with senior management, evidence of being able to take the lead on pay and T&Cs negotiations and consultations and manage relationships with trade unions where necessary.